Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/30/07 18:10

Mark wrote:

> Check out this page:
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/options/
>
> No doctype, table layout, presentation attributes, font tags...
>
> If somebody posted this page here for a critique it would be ripped to
> shreds.
>
> Run it through the W3C validator:
>
> ---8<---
> No DOCTYPE found! Attempting validation with HTML 4.01 Transitional.
> Failed validation, 120 Errors
> --->8---
>
> HTML has to be pretty bad to fail validation against HTML 4.01
> Transitional, and with no less than 120 errors.
>
> Is this also a clue that Google doesn't really care about the quality of
> HTML when ranking pages?

Google doesn't care about anything except profit, Mark.

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